A/N : Ha ha I got you all! There was still a second chapter to come.
Er.anyway, LoL, The others find out about Gil & Cath. Hope you find it
amusing. This one is for my Graveyardshift pals!!!
Two male figures were sitting in Catherine's dimly lit living room. One of them, Grissom, was seated on the comfy couch, staring intently at the television in front of him, hoping Catherine would soon return from putting Lindsey to bed. There was a show on Discovery Channel about Tutanchamon. Interesting? Perhaps. A Distraction? Definitely. The other, Greg, was seated in a big leather chair, staring at his boss, a goofy smile growing on his face. None of them said a word.
Catherine returned from tucking Lindsey in after 15 minutes, a record time. Lindsey had been surprisingly quiet and willing to go to bed. Frowning, she entered her living room, instantly noticing the uncomfortable silence, Grissom's stern expression and Greg's weird grin. "Who died?" she mumbled, before sitting next to Grissom, who quickly laid an arm around her.
"Well, well, well..." Greg began, his cheeks flushed with excitement at his new discovery.
"Yes, Greg?" Catherine answered, knowing exactly where he was going.
"So, how.long..?"
Catherine looked at Grissom, but when she saw he wasn't about to answer that question, she did, "A couple of months"
"Rrrrrrrrrreallllly?" Greg rubbed his hands together. This was good stuff. Real good stuff.
"Yes, Greg. Really"
Greg nodded, his eyes sparkling. He couldn't wait for shift to start tomorrow.
"Greg, shouldn't you be going...somewhere?"
It was the first time Grissom had spoken since he and Catherine had been busted by Greg and Lindsey. He looked uneasy with the whole thing to say the least.
Greg looked up surprised, Grissom had actually sounded...a little hostile. He raised an eyebrow at the older man, but when the latter didn't budge, gave in. "You're probably right, yeah. I should go home. Get some sleep. ...Although I don't think I'll be able to sleep after this..!"
Catherine chuckled and rose from the couch.
Walking over to the door with Greg, she said in a low voice, "I don't know if I have to ask you, but Gil and me..it's not that it's this huge, big secret.but we have to be discrete at work. You understand what I'm saying?"
"Sure do, boss-lady" Greg winked at her, waved at Grissom on the couch and closed the door behind him.
Catherine stood in the middle of the room, arms crossed in front of her chest. "Wow, were we busted or what?" She asked Gil, trying to lighten the mood, while walking over to the couch and sitting down next to him.
He didn't react.
"Gil. Hello ? Earth to..Bugman?"
He turned to her with a small smile on his face. "I haven't left the planet yet, Cath"
"Good. You know, Greg's just teasing us. And, of course the team is going tease us about it at work. We would do the same if it were..Greg and Sara or Nick and his latest... 'chick' "
'You're right. You're absolutely right....." He took a moment to reflect what she had said and then continued, " It's just that Greg will be the only that knows about us. And Greg being Greg, He'll constantly drop hints, make remarks that only we get, watch us closely etc."
Catherine coughed lightly. " Er.yeah, about that... Warrick knows too"
"What?" Grissom was truly surprised.
"I told him. He was on to us. I mean, he just found the link between my sudden happiness and yours"
Grissom chuckled. "You mean, as soon as you got the chance, you told him"
Catherine blushed a little. "Yeah. He's a good friend to the both of us. Besides, he would have noticed"
He smiled, put an arm around her and pulled her close to him. She leaned in and softly kissed him on the lips. They stayed close to each other like that for a couple of minutes, until Greg's song suddenly sprang to Catherine's mind.
"I'm doing it all backwards though"
"I'm sorry?"
"That song that Greg was singing. After the 'kissing in a tree' -part. First comes love, then comes marriage then comes Catherine with a baby carriage. Right ?"
"I suppose" Grissom answered slowly, not understanding what she meant.
" First, I had a kid, then I married, I divorced and then..I found love" She hugged him tightly and rested her head on his shoulder.
Grissom smiled at her lovingly and stroked her golden blond hair softly.
- - -
An hour had passed and Grissom had almost fallen asleep like that, Catherine's head resting on his shoulder, her arm around his chest while he had his arms around her, when Catherine asked him in a sleepy voice "Gil. You know it's gonna be hell tomorrow, don't you?"
"Yup" He whispered back, then closed his eyes again.
- - - - - - - -
Next day, Night Shift.
Greg entered the Crime Lab with a new air of confidence. He took big, firm steps, winked at some female police officers standing at the front desk, tried his most charming and dazzling smile on a blonde woman who he didn't know but just happened to be standing in one of the hallways and even attempted to whistle ' Wild Thing' but failed horribly as it sounded more like one of Britney Spear's songs.
Nevertheless, He was a man on a mission. And of course, He was THA man And he knew it. And he loved it.
Greg passed the break-room on his way to the lab and literally had to stop himself from squealing in excitement when he saw Nick there. All by his lonesome self. 'He he'.
Grinning like an idiot, he entered the break-room, taking the chair opposite the CSI. "Hello there Nick, my clueless friend"
Nick looked up from his dinner, blinked a couple of times in confusion and then asked, "What?"
"What what, Nicky-boy?"
"What did you just call me?"
"Nicky-boy ?"
"Before that, Greg"
"Hello there Nick, my truest friend?" Greg said grinning.
Nick snorted. "Right." He shook his head and decided not to pay anymore attention to the Lab geek. Whatever was wrong with him...it would pass. Eventually. With some counselling ..maybe.
Greg stared at the other man. Should he let him in on his little secret? No, he wanted to gloat some more at the fact that Nick was, indeed, clueless. * Suckerrrrrr *
Realising Nick was both clueless and useless to him, Greg left the break- room in search of the couple. His quest for them didn't take long.
He spotted them walking in together, probably heading for Grissom's office.
'No-can-do' Greg quickly fastened his pace and just as the couple had made it to Grissom's office, he managed to block their way.
"Hello, hello, my two lovebirds" He raised his eyebrows at the two, knowingly.
"Hello Greg " When he noticed Greg wasn't about to let him off the hook that easily, he tried, "as your superior I am asking..no, telling you to get out of the way" Catherine was subtly covering her mouth with her hand.
"Relax, Griss. I won't KISS and tell" The Lab technician replied.
Grissom turned around when he heard a muffled sound. Catherine was trying her best not to laugh. Turning back to face Greg he said," Greg, really. I need to get into my office. Now"
Greg held his hands up in defence. "Ok, ok. Anything you say " He winked at Catherine before leaving the two and heading for the lab.
Grissom opened the door to his office and went in as Catherine followed.
" You're a lot of support"
"I'm sorry, Gil. I really am. But If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old", Catherine said still laughing but when she saw his serious expression, shook her head." Ok, sorry"
He shrugged." I'm just a little uncomfortable that's all. Not used to it. I don't like to be ridiculed. I'm still his supervisor and somehow...by knowing that we're together, he seems to think that that's changed. I'm just not..comfortable with him knowing"
Catherine walked over to him, wrapped her arms around his waist and kissed him. "I know, you're just a little... inexperienced"
He pulled up his brows. "Am I, now? Really?"
" At the relationship-stuff. Yeah. But don't worry, for the other part you're a real L-O-V-E machine."
He blushed then chuckled and she laughed at his burning red cheeks. "Come one" She said after one more kiss. "Let's go face the music"
"What do you mean?"
"We should tell the others"
Silence.
"Catherine..Why?"
"To beat Greg to it of course. You see, first, he'll think he's the king of the world knowing our little secret. Soon enough though, He'll get bored and he'll want to share. So, we beat him to it. We tell. It will make you feel better, I promise"
"But..now?"
"Yes, now"
"Cath, I really don't think it's any of their business. We've been seeing each other for months now, no-one has noticed, it hasn't affected our working-relationship or our work. Why should we tell them?"
"They will find out eventually, Gil. Would you rather they heard it from Greg or from us?"
"You've got a point there"
"Of course I do. Besides, it won't be such a big deal. We just tell them and explain it's not going to change anything around here"
He shook his head and smiled. "You just have a way of making the most illogical thing sound...logical"
"It's one of my many talents. Now come on"
Catherine took Grissom by the hand and gently pulled him with her. Grissom followed, warily, glad that Catherine would do all the talking. He suddenly felt incredibly..exposed and a little bit insecure. He had always believed that his private life was his business. No need to let anyone at work in on it. Except for Catherine, of course. And know he was about to confess something in front of his team. He was very sure about his relationship with Catherine. She was the one. But still, he couldn't help but feel.....exposed.
They walked over to the break-room to find Sara, Nick and Warrick already present. "Hey Sara, Nick....Warrick" Catherine began. "We wanted to tell you something. Grissom and I are...a couple. We've been dating for a couple of months now, we're in love and .we just wanted to let you guys know this and that it won't change things around here. Honestly."
Grissom just stared at the floor. Yeah sure, honesty is the best policy. But...still.
Nick and Sara just gaped at the two, Warrick winked at Catherine and smiled. He was glad she had told the others. He would have kept their relationship a secret, of course, but it wouldn't have been easy keeping something that big from his buddy Nick.
"The reason why we didn't tell you at first was because we weren't sure it would work out. But it has. And, we'll be very discrete about it" Catherine added.
"That means...what? No making out during shift?" Nick asked, chuckling.
"Amongst other things" Catherine quipped, winking at him.
Grissom, a little embarrassed, gently pulled Catherine's hand. "Maybe they need a little time to recover from the bomb we just dropped on them"
Catherine shrugged a cheerful "okay" and together they walked out, leaving a very distraught Sara and a smiling Nick and Warrick behind in the break- room.
"And you knew?" Nick asked Warrick who didn't seem to be shocked or surprised.
"Duh. Those two should have hooked up a loooong time ago. It was bound to happen, man"
Sara just nodded. This was just going a little too fast for her. They were in love. Obviously. But, like Grissom said, she needed a little time to recover from this shock. She was happy for them, in a way. Because they seemed happy.
The group talked about it some more and concluded, just like Warrick had earlier, that the match was made in heaven. A loooooooong time ago. Just when Sara and Nick were about to leave due to their newest case, Greg entered the room.
"Guys" he yelped. "I can't take it anymore!! The pressure!"
Nick whispered to Sara, "He's been acting weird all day" "What's new about that?" Sara whispered back. "WeirDER than usual" "Our resident Drama Queen" Warrick added.
"Guys, come on!" Greg tried again. "Because I can't keep a secret from my truest friends.my buddies..."
"Just spit it out already" Warrick said annoyed, gathering his things from the table.
"Grissom and Catherine...ARE TOGETHER!"
Silence.
"AS A COUPLE!"
Silence.
Greg shook his head frantically. " They are. They really are."
Sara smiled and threw him a compassionate look as she walked passed him, out of the break-room. Nick followed her lead, laughing and shaking his head.
The last that was to leave was Warrick, who patted the lab technician on the shoulder and said, "You are waaay behind, man" and walked out as well, leaving a dumbfounded Greg alone in the break-room.
"Huh?!"
~THE END~
Two male figures were sitting in Catherine's dimly lit living room. One of them, Grissom, was seated on the comfy couch, staring intently at the television in front of him, hoping Catherine would soon return from putting Lindsey to bed. There was a show on Discovery Channel about Tutanchamon. Interesting? Perhaps. A Distraction? Definitely. The other, Greg, was seated in a big leather chair, staring at his boss, a goofy smile growing on his face. None of them said a word.
Catherine returned from tucking Lindsey in after 15 minutes, a record time. Lindsey had been surprisingly quiet and willing to go to bed. Frowning, she entered her living room, instantly noticing the uncomfortable silence, Grissom's stern expression and Greg's weird grin. "Who died?" she mumbled, before sitting next to Grissom, who quickly laid an arm around her.
"Well, well, well..." Greg began, his cheeks flushed with excitement at his new discovery.
"Yes, Greg?" Catherine answered, knowing exactly where he was going.
"So, how.long..?"
Catherine looked at Grissom, but when she saw he wasn't about to answer that question, she did, "A couple of months"
"Rrrrrrrrrreallllly?" Greg rubbed his hands together. This was good stuff. Real good stuff.
"Yes, Greg. Really"
Greg nodded, his eyes sparkling. He couldn't wait for shift to start tomorrow.
"Greg, shouldn't you be going...somewhere?"
It was the first time Grissom had spoken since he and Catherine had been busted by Greg and Lindsey. He looked uneasy with the whole thing to say the least.
Greg looked up surprised, Grissom had actually sounded...a little hostile. He raised an eyebrow at the older man, but when the latter didn't budge, gave in. "You're probably right, yeah. I should go home. Get some sleep. ...Although I don't think I'll be able to sleep after this..!"
Catherine chuckled and rose from the couch.
Walking over to the door with Greg, she said in a low voice, "I don't know if I have to ask you, but Gil and me..it's not that it's this huge, big secret.but we have to be discrete at work. You understand what I'm saying?"
"Sure do, boss-lady" Greg winked at her, waved at Grissom on the couch and closed the door behind him.
Catherine stood in the middle of the room, arms crossed in front of her chest. "Wow, were we busted or what?" She asked Gil, trying to lighten the mood, while walking over to the couch and sitting down next to him.
He didn't react.
"Gil. Hello ? Earth to..Bugman?"
He turned to her with a small smile on his face. "I haven't left the planet yet, Cath"
"Good. You know, Greg's just teasing us. And, of course the team is going tease us about it at work. We would do the same if it were..Greg and Sara or Nick and his latest... 'chick' "
'You're right. You're absolutely right....." He took a moment to reflect what she had said and then continued, " It's just that Greg will be the only that knows about us. And Greg being Greg, He'll constantly drop hints, make remarks that only we get, watch us closely etc."
Catherine coughed lightly. " Er.yeah, about that... Warrick knows too"
"What?" Grissom was truly surprised.
"I told him. He was on to us. I mean, he just found the link between my sudden happiness and yours"
Grissom chuckled. "You mean, as soon as you got the chance, you told him"
Catherine blushed a little. "Yeah. He's a good friend to the both of us. Besides, he would have noticed"
He smiled, put an arm around her and pulled her close to him. She leaned in and softly kissed him on the lips. They stayed close to each other like that for a couple of minutes, until Greg's song suddenly sprang to Catherine's mind.
"I'm doing it all backwards though"
"I'm sorry?"
"That song that Greg was singing. After the 'kissing in a tree' -part. First comes love, then comes marriage then comes Catherine with a baby carriage. Right ?"
"I suppose" Grissom answered slowly, not understanding what she meant.
" First, I had a kid, then I married, I divorced and then..I found love" She hugged him tightly and rested her head on his shoulder.
Grissom smiled at her lovingly and stroked her golden blond hair softly.
- - -
An hour had passed and Grissom had almost fallen asleep like that, Catherine's head resting on his shoulder, her arm around his chest while he had his arms around her, when Catherine asked him in a sleepy voice "Gil. You know it's gonna be hell tomorrow, don't you?"
"Yup" He whispered back, then closed his eyes again.
- - - - - - - -
Next day, Night Shift.
Greg entered the Crime Lab with a new air of confidence. He took big, firm steps, winked at some female police officers standing at the front desk, tried his most charming and dazzling smile on a blonde woman who he didn't know but just happened to be standing in one of the hallways and even attempted to whistle ' Wild Thing' but failed horribly as it sounded more like one of Britney Spear's songs.
Nevertheless, He was a man on a mission. And of course, He was THA man And he knew it. And he loved it.
Greg passed the break-room on his way to the lab and literally had to stop himself from squealing in excitement when he saw Nick there. All by his lonesome self. 'He he'.
Grinning like an idiot, he entered the break-room, taking the chair opposite the CSI. "Hello there Nick, my clueless friend"
Nick looked up from his dinner, blinked a couple of times in confusion and then asked, "What?"
"What what, Nicky-boy?"
"What did you just call me?"
"Nicky-boy ?"
"Before that, Greg"
"Hello there Nick, my truest friend?" Greg said grinning.
Nick snorted. "Right." He shook his head and decided not to pay anymore attention to the Lab geek. Whatever was wrong with him...it would pass. Eventually. With some counselling ..maybe.
Greg stared at the other man. Should he let him in on his little secret? No, he wanted to gloat some more at the fact that Nick was, indeed, clueless. * Suckerrrrrr *
Realising Nick was both clueless and useless to him, Greg left the break- room in search of the couple. His quest for them didn't take long.
He spotted them walking in together, probably heading for Grissom's office.
'No-can-do' Greg quickly fastened his pace and just as the couple had made it to Grissom's office, he managed to block their way.
"Hello, hello, my two lovebirds" He raised his eyebrows at the two, knowingly.
"Hello Greg " When he noticed Greg wasn't about to let him off the hook that easily, he tried, "as your superior I am asking..no, telling you to get out of the way" Catherine was subtly covering her mouth with her hand.
"Relax, Griss. I won't KISS and tell" The Lab technician replied.
Grissom turned around when he heard a muffled sound. Catherine was trying her best not to laugh. Turning back to face Greg he said," Greg, really. I need to get into my office. Now"
Greg held his hands up in defence. "Ok, ok. Anything you say " He winked at Catherine before leaving the two and heading for the lab.
Grissom opened the door to his office and went in as Catherine followed.
" You're a lot of support"
"I'm sorry, Gil. I really am. But If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old", Catherine said still laughing but when she saw his serious expression, shook her head." Ok, sorry"
He shrugged." I'm just a little uncomfortable that's all. Not used to it. I don't like to be ridiculed. I'm still his supervisor and somehow...by knowing that we're together, he seems to think that that's changed. I'm just not..comfortable with him knowing"
Catherine walked over to him, wrapped her arms around his waist and kissed him. "I know, you're just a little... inexperienced"
He pulled up his brows. "Am I, now? Really?"
" At the relationship-stuff. Yeah. But don't worry, for the other part you're a real L-O-V-E machine."
He blushed then chuckled and she laughed at his burning red cheeks. "Come one" She said after one more kiss. "Let's go face the music"
"What do you mean?"
"We should tell the others"
Silence.
"Catherine..Why?"
"To beat Greg to it of course. You see, first, he'll think he's the king of the world knowing our little secret. Soon enough though, He'll get bored and he'll want to share. So, we beat him to it. We tell. It will make you feel better, I promise"
"But..now?"
"Yes, now"
"Cath, I really don't think it's any of their business. We've been seeing each other for months now, no-one has noticed, it hasn't affected our working-relationship or our work. Why should we tell them?"
"They will find out eventually, Gil. Would you rather they heard it from Greg or from us?"
"You've got a point there"
"Of course I do. Besides, it won't be such a big deal. We just tell them and explain it's not going to change anything around here"
He shook his head and smiled. "You just have a way of making the most illogical thing sound...logical"
"It's one of my many talents. Now come on"
Catherine took Grissom by the hand and gently pulled him with her. Grissom followed, warily, glad that Catherine would do all the talking. He suddenly felt incredibly..exposed and a little bit insecure. He had always believed that his private life was his business. No need to let anyone at work in on it. Except for Catherine, of course. And know he was about to confess something in front of his team. He was very sure about his relationship with Catherine. She was the one. But still, he couldn't help but feel.....exposed.
They walked over to the break-room to find Sara, Nick and Warrick already present. "Hey Sara, Nick....Warrick" Catherine began. "We wanted to tell you something. Grissom and I are...a couple. We've been dating for a couple of months now, we're in love and .we just wanted to let you guys know this and that it won't change things around here. Honestly."
Grissom just stared at the floor. Yeah sure, honesty is the best policy. But...still.
Nick and Sara just gaped at the two, Warrick winked at Catherine and smiled. He was glad she had told the others. He would have kept their relationship a secret, of course, but it wouldn't have been easy keeping something that big from his buddy Nick.
"The reason why we didn't tell you at first was because we weren't sure it would work out. But it has. And, we'll be very discrete about it" Catherine added.
"That means...what? No making out during shift?" Nick asked, chuckling.
"Amongst other things" Catherine quipped, winking at him.
Grissom, a little embarrassed, gently pulled Catherine's hand. "Maybe they need a little time to recover from the bomb we just dropped on them"
Catherine shrugged a cheerful "okay" and together they walked out, leaving a very distraught Sara and a smiling Nick and Warrick behind in the break- room.
"And you knew?" Nick asked Warrick who didn't seem to be shocked or surprised.
"Duh. Those two should have hooked up a loooong time ago. It was bound to happen, man"
Sara just nodded. This was just going a little too fast for her. They were in love. Obviously. But, like Grissom said, she needed a little time to recover from this shock. She was happy for them, in a way. Because they seemed happy.
The group talked about it some more and concluded, just like Warrick had earlier, that the match was made in heaven. A loooooooong time ago. Just when Sara and Nick were about to leave due to their newest case, Greg entered the room.
"Guys" he yelped. "I can't take it anymore!! The pressure!"
Nick whispered to Sara, "He's been acting weird all day" "What's new about that?" Sara whispered back. "WeirDER than usual" "Our resident Drama Queen" Warrick added.
"Guys, come on!" Greg tried again. "Because I can't keep a secret from my truest friends.my buddies..."
"Just spit it out already" Warrick said annoyed, gathering his things from the table.
"Grissom and Catherine...ARE TOGETHER!"
Silence.
"AS A COUPLE!"
Silence.
Greg shook his head frantically. " They are. They really are."
Sara smiled and threw him a compassionate look as she walked passed him, out of the break-room. Nick followed her lead, laughing and shaking his head.
The last that was to leave was Warrick, who patted the lab technician on the shoulder and said, "You are waaay behind, man" and walked out as well, leaving a dumbfounded Greg alone in the break-room.
"Huh?!"
~THE END~